"The problem isn't machines, it's letting machines do your thinking for you." - Leto III (Dune) A friend suggests that Black Mirror is "about screens". I see w

"The problem isn't machines, it's letting machines do your thinking for you." - Leto III (Dune) A friend suggests that Black Mirror is "about screens". I see what he's saying on a surface level, but, screens are just how we interface with machines doing the thinking for us, instead of people. On the other hand, isn't bureaucracy a machine, running on meat? "Screens" used to be "Paper" - see the crazy movie "Brazil". Replacing something hard (actually getting to know someone and their situation) with something easy (the output of a system) has been with humanity for a really long time, if not forever. Most [of the prior] Black Mirror episodes are about, I think, man's inhumanity to man, just mediated by modern technology. Most of them are about some way that people are failing to connect to each other. I have only watched one of the new episodes.